{"id":161695,"date":"2024-12-27T00:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/signs-point-russian-air-defense-downed-azerbaijan-airlines-embraer-190-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T00:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:37:21","slug":"signs-point-to-russian-air-defense-downing-azerbaijan-airlines-embraer-190-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=161695","title":{"rendered":"Signs Point To Russian Air Defense Downing Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 December, videos emerged online showing             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257366\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/azerbaijan-airlines\/\"  >Azerbaijan Airlines<\/a><\/span>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256510\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/embraer-190\/\"  >Embraer 190<\/a><\/span> operating as         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038050\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/breaking-azerbaijan-airlines-flight\/\" >Flight 8432 crashing in western Kazakhstan near Aktau International Airport<\/a><\/span>. The flight had 62 passengers and 5 crew onboard, of which 38 perished. Early reports suggested the aircraft succumbed from a             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257134\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bird-strike\/\"  >bird strike<\/a><\/span>. However, images shared on social media of the tail and fuselage seemingly peppered with shrapnel from an air defense missile led some to believe the aircraft may have been struck by Russian air defense. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/26\/exclusive-preliminary-investigation-confirms-russian-missile-over-grozny-caused-aktau-cras\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Euronews<\/a> has exclusively reported, citing links to Azerbaijani government sources, preliminary assessments are that a Russian missile struck the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary conclusions from Azerbaijan suggest the Embraer 190 was brought down by Russian air defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,396,13103,1311,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-crash","category-aircraft","category-azerbaijan-airlines","category-embraer-190","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161696,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161695\/revisions\/161696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}